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Glyphosate ban may have reduced production by 10 to 15 pct
The president has emphasised the need to work closely with the multilaterals, sources of funding
Buyers offered 700,664 nuts at the auction, and sold 555,095.
Adverse weather and low fertilizer application by smallholders were contributing to the fall
Agriculture minister asks farmers to diversify into crops that have export demand instead of low yield cultivation
Sri Lanka has raised a paddy (rough rice) output from both cultivation seasons in 2019 to 4.613 million metric tonnes up...
Improved use of its warehousing, which was doubled in recent years, has helped Sri Lanka’s Asia Siyaka Commodities off...
Sri Lanka should restrict imports of milk powder and dairy products as the island was cable of meeting most of its needs...
Mahaweli Coconut Plantations Limited said its crop rose sharply last year after good rains with yields far higher than t...
Sri Lanka is unveiling a program to upgrade, rural agriculture, and diary and fisheries, which will boost their capacity...
Sri Lanka’s government decision making gets delayed as it has to grapple with vested interests and public agitati...
Sri Lanka’s palm oil plantations stand to lose 500 million rupees worth of fully grown plants in nurseries as the...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe laid the foundation to build a 209 million cubic metre (169,000 acre feet) reservoir...
Restoring Sri Lanka’s ancient system of irrigation reservoirs is helping farmers in the dry zone better cope with...
A hundred young entrepreneurs will receive funding on August 19 to set up greenhouses and to link up with an export firm...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 305.1018 | 305.3339 |
| UK Pound | 386.9523 | 387.2371 |
| Euro | 330.8712 | 332.1141 |
| Aus Dollar | 201.0018 | 201.4980 |
| Yen | 2.0266 | 2.0278 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.6453 | 3.5932 |
| Korea Won | 0.2342 | 0.2292 |
| Oman Rial | 780.3569 | 769.4973 |
| Saudi Riyal | 80.1114 | 78.9849 |
| UAE Dirham | 81.7952 | 80.6569 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
| CSE All Share | 9,073.41 | 0.65% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,591,766,524.95 | 1,029,335,694.32 |
| Latest | Last | |
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| 3-m bill | 21.72 | 21.79 |
| 6-m bill | 19.55 | 20.31 |
| 12-m bill | 17.72 | 19.28 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.00 | 22.53 |
| 8-yr bond | 19.42 | 20.55 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
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Sri Lanka is forecasting 1.471 million tonnes of paddy to be produced in the Yala 2019 minor cultivation season with 12,...
Sri Lanka plans to re-take unused coastal areas released for aquaculture and salterns as part of a project to re-generat...
Sri Lanka will provide mobile and fixed dryers for paddy farmers , who are now forced to sell their harvest at ad hoc di...
Sri Lanka is making agricultural policy based on unscientific claims at times with the backing of President Maithripala ...
Sri Lanka is targeting 3.5 billion US dollars in foreign exchange and 350 million kilogrammes of tea production by 2030,...
Errant Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) in Sri Lanka need to be punished under new reforms to be brought in the futu...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantation Plc grew 67 percent to 275 million rupees in the June 2019 quarter from a yea...
Sri Lanka's Carsons Cumberbatch Plc, which owns oil palm farms in Malaysia and Indonesia and processing plants, said bum...
Sri Lanka is looking to counter the problem where farmers cannot get a guaranteed price due to higher moisture content i...
Sri Lanka's Plantations Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake has threatened to expose a Provincial Governor who is pres...
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